The southern Gaza Khan Younis City witnessed two separate incidents resulting in the killing of one person and injuring eight people.
Another young man was killed in Rafah after being shot with two bullets.
A father and his son were also shot in a clan feud in Rafah while another person was killed in a tunnel fire in Rafah.
  According to the investigations of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, two persons were shot in a clan feud between two clans in Rafah at around 5:30pm on Thursday, 2 October 2008.
As a result, Ibrahim Muhammad al-Arja, 60, was shot in the right leg.
His son, Deifallah al-Arja, 20, was shot in the left thigh.
Members of al-Arja clan had attacked the shooter and taken over his handgun before a police force arrived at the scene.
  In a separate incident, a fight broke out between members of al-Masri clan and persons affiliated with Hamas at around 10:30pm, on Thursday, 2 October 2008, after a bus broke down in al-Masri neighborhood in ‘Jourat Ellout’ in Khan Younis.
A number of Hamas supporters were on board the bus on their way back to Rafah after participating in a collective wedding party organized in Gaza.
An argument was heated between the bus passengers and members of al-Masri clan because the passengers were shouting and clapping while the bus was in repair.
The argument developed into a fight and stone-throwing.
The bus passengers fled towards Shbeir Gas Station and members of al-Masri clan followed them.
There were masked gunmen standing by the gas station, who intervened to resolve the dispute.
One of them opened fire, resulting in the killing of Muhammad Farhan al-Masri, 19, shortly after he was shot in the right side.
  Another fight erupted among members of Abu Hadayid clan at around 11:00am on Friday, 3 October 2008.
The disputants used weapons and a police force immediately arrived at the scene and arrested a number of them.
The police force attempted to break into the house of an ex-MP and the Chief of the Board of Directors of Al Dameer for Human Rights, Mr.
Ra’fat al-Najjar, with the claim of searching for a number of fugitives.
The attempt developed into a clash between members of the police and al-Najjar clan after Mr.
Ra’fat al-Najjar fell on the ground while trying to prevent a policeman from beating a relative.
Believing his father was beaten by the police, Mr.
al-Najjar's son attacked a policeman.
Members of the police force also attacked his wife, his son Othman and two of his in-laws.
The police arrested a number of al-Najjar family for a few hours, including Othman al-Najjar, the oldest son of Mr.
Ra’fat al-Najjar.
  Moreover, the Center’s researchers reported the killing of Muhammad Ahmad Sulaiman Azzom, 18, at around 10:00pm on Tuesday, 30 September 2008, while he was at a house of one of his relatives in Tal Sultan neighborhood.
He died from two bullets in the neck and was transferred to al-Najjar Hospital as a dead body.
  In a separate incident, Talal Husni Dirgham (Zoroub), 20, died at around 3:57pm on Saturday, 4 October 2008 after a fire broke out due to an electrical short circuit inside a tunnel connecting the Gaza Strip and Egypt in al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah.
Three persons were also injured in the incident and transferred to al-Najjar Hospital.
They sustained moderate injuries, according to medical resources.
This incident raises the death toll in tunnels in 2008 to 36.
  Al Mezan Center expresses its sorrow for the killing and injuring of civilians.
It denounces the use of excessive force by police members especially when dealing with public figures such as Mr.
Ra’fat al-Najjar.
It also denounces the intervention of masked gunmen—according to eyewitness—in the fight that broke out between members of al-Masri family and supporters of Hamas.
The Center asserts the police right to pursue suspects and/or felons; however, it stresses the police obligation to observe the law and use proportionate force at all times.
It also stresses the need to take non-violent arrangements and procedures as much as possible and minimize the use of force except when inevitable.
  Therefore, Al Mezan calls for opening a prompt and serious investigation into both of the incidents mentioned above.
The law must be enforced; especially if police members are found guilty.
The Center stresses the need not to subject justice to any factional considerations and that those who break the law should not be protected by their factions either.
Moreover, the same standards should also apply to all citizens especially in such incidents where innocent people are victimized.
The Center stresses that the government in Gaza should assume the responsibility for the life and safety of citizens, including the victims of tunnels, whose death toll keeps rising.
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